Reviews from around the world

This year’s Busan Biennale, inspired by David Graeber’s notion of ‘pirate enlightenment’, offers a glimpse into a world where progress can only be found outside the West

Nicolas Bourriaud’s theme of ‘pansori’ suggests an opera you can walk through – but this only begins to take form at the Gwangju Biennale

In her new exhibition at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, the São Paulo artist contrasts the city’s lush landscape to her hometown’s concrete geometry

Featuring an expanded video installation and wall-mounted works incorporating solar cells, the artist’s show at SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, emphasizes presence

At Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, the artist’s elaborate works made with motorbike parts embody ‘sculpture as a verb’

Featuring diverse work by 27 emerging or underrepresented artists, the inaugural edition of Auckland Art Gallery’s triennial explores thresholds and transitions

At Cemeti – Institute for Art and Society and ROH Projects, the artist’s exploration of extraction in Indonesia asks: ‘How to reverse the tide?’

At the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Candiani evokes the city’s geography to understand how humans might live better together

At 798CUBE, Beijing, the artist presents marvels of engineering with lives of their own

At Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, the artist builds on legacies of copies and proxies

At Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, the artist challenges views of history as clear, singular and conclusive

At the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the artist creates a constellation of living memory for her first solo institutional show in Brazil

‘In Real Time’ at NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, presents art works that evolve over the course of the exhibition

The artist’s latest project, recently installed at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, simulates the damage that a debt-driven financial system can wreak on the environment

In his survey at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, the artist explores the nationalistic archetypes of authoritarian regimes and the individuals expected to conform to their schemas

The eighth edition makes novel use of cacophony, disorientation and deferred gratification

Two videos at Gladstone Gallery, Seoul displace their viewers into the role of aides to the algorithm

A Cape Town retrospective showcases the diverse accomplishments of an artist whose Ndebele-inspired graphical style led to collaborations with BMW and Comme Des Garçons

Despite a lackluster inaugural exhibition, Hampi Art Labs shows promise as a revitalizing institution in the region

In a new body of work, the artist proposes a voice that blurs artificial intelligence and liveness